J.C. Rice III, a recent graduate of Covington High School, received a $1,000 scholarship from the Greater Covington Branch of the NAACP. The group presented its 2014 scholarship recipient at a recent meeting.

Rice maintained a 3.8 grade point average, wrote an impressive essay and received several recommendations for the scholarship, the NAACP branch said in a news release.

Rice will attend the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and study biology.